Fighting style vs Personality
I like how peopleās fighting style in MDZS doesnāt always match their at-first-brush personality, but is actually a solid hint at who they are deep down.
Lan Wangji is a distant, reserved person who is always elegant, quiet and rule abiding at first glance.Ā
In combat though, he is a hardcore solo front-line fighter.Ā Ā He usually seems to cultivate alone (when he isnāt chaperoning juniors) and in war he is right there.Ā He earned that reputation for being where the chaos is.Ā In episode 15 he is all alone on a rooftop, and all alone knocks aside an entire armyās arrows with a strum of his guqin.Ā When the others follow his order to start formations you can see that he is even-with, or in-front of the protective barriers.Ā Fearless.
Wei WuXian is a reckless person, dashing into the middle of things and flouting rules left and right from the moment you meet him.
During a fight however, he is very meticulous and tactical.Ā Observing and analyzing his opponents while staying out of their reach until he gets a grasp on things, then going in for the kill.Ā After losing his core and being devoted to Demonic Cultivation he becomes even more so - an overseeing general puppeteering an army from a distance.
Jiang Cheng seems like the aloof, commanding leader type.Ā Heās usually barking orders at people and leaning on intimidation to maintain his position.
Put him on a battlefield though, and instead of a distant commander, heās a mid-range army captain.Ā Right in the thick of the men leading the charge instead of standing apart.Ā He follows battle plans and can formulate them on the fly, but he does better when heās part of a team following a grand plan.
Nie Mingjue seems like heād be a brute - heās straightforwardly itching for a fight from the moment he appears.
And he is to an extent, but heās also a very competent, politically savvy military leader.Ā He isnāt there just for his own glory or the thrill of hacking a guy with his saber.Ā Heās leading an idealistic rebellion, the ultimate commander of a combined army, holding it all together with the strength of his personailty and conviction and aiming himself at the tactically sound targets of the enemy leaders, not gunning for any fight he can get.Ā Though the politically savvy part eventually got him killed as he would have had less trouble if heād gone the non-PR rout of decapitating Meng Yao like he wanted to.
Jin Ling is a pretty princess, turning his nose up at things and complaining all the time you would expect him to be delicate and hang back, complaining for someone to save him.
On a hunt or fight, he is every bit as reckless and dashing headlong into a fight as Wei WuXian isnāt.Ā He runs ahead alone, investigated the creepy burial place alone, he never runs, no matter what heās up against.Ā Heāll fight till he wins or gets killed.
Lan Sizhui seems like a perfect Lan, upholding their ideal 24/7.
In a fight though, he is ready and willing to improvise.Ā He takes new information and tactics, and adapts his strategy and just runs with it - even if it comes from a lunatic.Ā He follows his gut instinct almost constantly and is quick about making connections between different, sometimes illogical information someone else would dismiss to get to the heart of things.
Lan Jingyi is excitable and loud, he seems like a spaz and could easliy have been a bumbling clutz to Lan Sihzuiās straight man.
At the Mo manor though, it wasnāt Lan Sizhui that took control of the crowd of people in the novel.Ā It was Lan Jingyi.Ā His skillset isnāt flashy, but he is good a managing and controlling situations so that someone a bit stronger can have free reign to do their thing, and thatās how heās a perfect teammate to Lan Shizui.
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